36 EVERY MAN HIS OWN TRAINER. 



will keep the stand good natured and you will get from the 

 judges all that belongs to you during the race. Otherwise, if 

 you annoy them by trying to get the advantage in going away 

 or not coming for the word unless you have the best of it, 

 they will not feel like giving you the benefit of a doubt. When 

 you get the word don't be in a hurry to win the heat around 

 the first turn. Keep your colt well in hand and see that you 

 have good clear sailing ; do not get in any one's way and do 

 not let them get in yours if you can help it, so as to interfere 

 with your colt and get him off his stride into a break. Re- 

 member, there is no money at the quarter or half mile pole. 

 When you get around the turn into the back stretch, if your 

 colt is on his stride and going smooth move him along. Be 

 ready to take advantage of any break made by the other 

 horses and keep your colt steady and on a trot, and do not 

 force him until you get into the stretch near the finish. Then 

 if necessary take hold of your colt and drive him, as the boys 

 say, for dear life. With this management if you do not win 

 the heat you will not have taken the heart out of your horse 

 and he will be ready to go the next heat better than this one, 

 as it is safe to say he has more left than if he had been driven 

 from wire to wire, as the first heat usually tells more on a 

 horse than any other heat of his race. 



We will suppose your race is over, and whether he has 

 trotted a good or poor race, it would be well to remove his 

 shoes and let him alone for two or three days ; turn him in a 

 paddock or small field, night and morning, if you have one ; 

 if not, walk him out and give him plenty of grass ; then put 

 on his shoes and commence his work as before. When you 

 have jogged him two or three days go on the track and you 

 will find you have a better horse by several seconds than you 

 had the day of the race. For I think a race, if not too hard, 

 does a young horse a great amount of good, as the}' will learn 

 more in one race than they will in a month's training. For 

 instance, the first good race Lysander l^oy, 2:20^, trotted for 

 me was at Lyons, N. V., July 4th, 1877. I had trotted him a 



